Hi, I don't know how many people on this list use samba with freebsd , but I have a question. I have samba set up and can connect to my other win conputers using smbclient but I am told that freebsd does not have smbmount. i need to mount my win hard drives in order to back them up. Is this possible some way with samba under freebsd. Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel rknebel@uplink.net http://rknebel.uplink.net
Rick Knebel wrote:> > Hi, > > I don't know how many people on this list use samba with freebsd , but I > have a question. > > I have samba set up and can connect to my other win conputers using > smbclient but I am told that freebsd does not have smbmount. > i need to mount my win hard drives in order to back them up. > Is this possible some way with samba under freebsd. > > ThanksAFAIK, smbmount is only available on Linux. This is because Linux supports a wide range of filesystems, of which smbfs is one. The SMB filesystem, IIRC, is not available on *BSD, which means you cannot use smbmount. You can, however, use smbclient to connect to a share. I haven't used it much, but the commands look similar to ftp commands, once you connect to a share (put, get, etc). smbsh is also supposed to allow similar functionality to smbmount by opening a shell prompt on that share. I haven't been able to use smbsh, however, because it keeps segfaulting on my Linux box. :/ HTH, -- Matthew Vanecek Course of Study: http://www.unt.edu/bcis Visit my Website at http://people.unt.edu/~mev0003 For answers type: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' ***************************************************************** For 93 million miles, there is nothing between the sun and my shadow except me. I'm always getting in the way of something...
At 01:16 AM 09/28/1999 +1000, Matthew Vanecek wrote: [clip]>smbsh is also supposed to allow similar >functionality to smbmount by opening a shell prompt on that share. I >haven't been able to use smbsh, however, because it keeps segfaulting on >my Linux box. :/ >HTH, >Matthew VanecekThe segfault is probably due to the smbsh/glibc-2.1 conflict reported at http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ/#47. Here's what it says: smbsh doesn't work with glibc-2.1 on Linux systems. That includes RedHat 6.0 and many other recent Linux distributions. It is very hard to fix this as the glibc maintainers have deliberately removed the necessary hooks for smbsh to work. They don't like the idea of user space filesystems. The only thing we can suggest right now is to use smbfs instead. Steve Litt
Rick Knebel wrote:> > Hi, > > I don't know how many people on this list use samba with freebsd , but I > have a question. > > I have samba set up and can connect to my other win conputers using > smbclient but I am told that freebsd does not have smbmount. > i need to mount my win hard drives in order to back them up. > Is this possible some way with samba under freebsd. >Sharity-light is supposed to run under FreeBSD: http://www.obdev.at/Products/shlight.html Though I did notice someone on the list was looking for an alternative the other day, because they didn't like it. :-/